| Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz Before Wahhabism: Ibrāhīm Al-Kūrānī's (D. 1101/1690) Theology of Sufism Contributor(s): Dumairieh, Naser (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004499040 ISBN-13: 9789004499041 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $122.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2021 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - General - History | Middle East - General - Philosophy | Religious |
| Physical Information: 372 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In Intellectual Life in the Ḥijāz before Wahhabism, Naser Dumairieh argues that, as a result of changing global conditions facilitating the movement of scholars and texts, the seventeenth-century Ḥijāz was one of the most important intellectual centers of the Islamic world, acting as a hub between its different parts. Positioning Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1101/1690) as representative of the intellectual activities of the pre-Wahhabism Ḥijāz, Dumairieh argues that his coherent philosophical system represents a synthesis of several major post-classical traditions of Islamic thought, namely kalām and Akbarian appropriations of Avicennian metaphysics. Al-Kūrānī's work is the culmination of the philosophized Akbarian tradition; with his reconciliation of Ibn ʿArabī's ideas with Ashʿarī theology, Ibn ʿArabī's ideas became Islamic theology. |